Need Training Tips.

Hey guys,

May I start by saying while I grew up with dogs, Roscoe is my first foray into Corgidom. Roscoe is 7 months old, we've had him for about 3 months now. I started with the training as soon as I got him home. Housebreaking was a snap, we crate trained him, and he has only went in the house once since we've had him. Sit and down were quickly learned, stay is still a work in progress. The only 2 issues we are having at the moment and cant seem to resolve are the "Leave It" command and jumping up when he greets people at the door or outside. Here's the funny thing, I can put a treat on the ground and say "leave it" and he wont touch it till I say it's ok, however, let there be a shoe, rag, paper, or towel on the floor and it's game over. We keep everything pretty much either away or out of his reach like the shoes and stuff, but what I want to get him to understand about these things are to leave it when we say so. I thought that the treat would be the big temptation but apparently not. He will leave the other items alone if I have treats, but if I dont have any on me, he goes straight for those tiems. The other issue mentioned above is jumping up on people when they come in the door or when we meet them on the street. I've tried putting him in his "place" when someone comes to the door but he just will not stay and will bolt right to them and jump up on them.

Anybody have any suggestions?

Thanks,

Chad

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Permalink Reply by Beth on September 29, 2009 at 6:26pm

I don't know about coming back from the hunt, but Jack greets a few of his dog friends (only the ones he plays and wrestles with off-leash) with wild exuberance if he has not seen them for awhile. I mean "get out of their way" exuberance. And his one dog friend, Sully, will howl up a storm if she is coming in the car and sees her buds are already at the park, and then she leaps all over them like mad. So yes, I do think it's yet another natural dog behavior that we don't allow in polite society.

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Permalink Reply by Beth on September 29, 2009 at 6:28pm

Haha, that's true. Cat poop is the ultimate prize, and since we have a feral cat population in the park we frequent, Jack has memorized all the best poop-burying places. Blech.

I thought cat poop was the be-all and end-all, then one day we went to an area by the stream near us that has natural rock walls on two sides and the stream on the third (it's at a bend in the river). The place reeked of ammonia. I can only assume a fox or coyote had marked there fairly recently. Well, it was all I could do to get Jack back; he was racing back and forth sticking his nose in everything. I was waving a treat in front of his nose as I was trying to scramble up the ledge to get to him, and he did not even see it! At that point, commands are useless as the dog literally does not even see/hear you any more.